From Imogen to Asher: Top baby names for 2014 (so far)

Cool beans. You don’t have to wait until the end of 2014 to find out the hottest and hippest baby names of the year. The baby-naming website Nameberry is closely tracking the monikers today’s parents are giving to their little babes as you read this article, and earlier this week the site released their annual mid-year list.

Imogen hails as the queen of the girls and Asher reigns as king. These names might not sound royal but the duo definitely has some clout as they were also at the top of 2013 Nameberry list. In fact, the 2014 list looks quite similar to the 2013 one. Claire is the only new addition to the girls. The boys welcomed Silas, Jasper and Milo. Hello guys!

View the top-10 names for both boys and girls above and find the full lists of 100 at Nameberry.com.

According to baby-naming experts at Nameberry:

The 2014 popular baby names list is based on the number of views each name attracted on Nameberry for the first half of the year. Rather than a measure of what people named their babies in the past, like the official popularity lists from the US and other countries, the Nameberry list gauges which names parents are most interested in for babies due to be born in coming months.

While the annual Social Security list reveals the most common names of the year, Nameberry offers up a tally of what’s up-and-coming and cutting-edge.

Top girls’ name Imogen, a Shakespearean name popular in England, has never been in the US Top 1000, with only 131 baby girls named Imogen in the US in 2013. But there were close to 200,000 views of Imogen on Nameberry in the first half of 2014.

Number 1 boys’ name Asher, a Biblical name meaning fortunate or happy, has zoomed up the US popularity list over the past few decades and is poised to break into the official Top 100. There were nearly 150,000 views of the name Asher on Nameberry from January through June 2014.